Underwaist.



PATENTBD SEPT. 26, 1905.

E. H. HORWOOD.

UNDERWAIST. APPLIUATION FILED Nov. 2. 1004.

uw! n@ EDWARD HENRY HoRwooD,

oE HoBoKEN, NEW JERSEY.

UNDERWAIST.

No. s o 0,444

Speccation of Letters Patent.

atented Sept. 26, 1905. y

Application led November 2. 1904. Serial No. 231,088.

To @Zi 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD HENRY HOR- WOOD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Under- Waists, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i

My invention relates, primarily, to the manufacture of underwaists for children, youths, and misses, and has for its purpose to provide a construction wherein the armholesection is double in its entirety and likewise a portion of the sides, thus rendering the Waists much more durable than heretofore, particularly at those points where they are subjected to the most wear and strain, and, further, to provide means whereby such construction may be carried out in the initial operation in manufacturing garments of this character, enabling the improved garment to be made with the same facility and with no greater expenditure of time than is called for in the ordinary single-ply garment, thus enabling an article of this character to be marketable, as the cost of manufacture is practically no more than that of the ordinary garment.

rl`he invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of the improved underwaist. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal transverse section taken practically on the line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section through the shoulder-strap forming' the upper portion of an armhole, as indicated on the line 4 4 of Fig. l.

l am aware that attempts have been made to strengthen underwaists at the armholes; but in all such cases it was customary to first finish the waist as usual and then lay a reinforcing strip or piece on the garment and stitch the piece to place. Such a process necessitated an expenditure of so much time on the garment and the parts to be added were so awkward to handle and adjust that the expense thus incurred interfered with successful marketing of the article, and the far stronger than when application is made in the old and customary manner. I y y A represents the single back-piece of an ordinary underwaist; B, one of the side-sections which connect with the back, the said side-section B being provided with the usual continuation l), adapted to form a portion of the shoulder-strap and a portion of the armhole D.

C represents one of the usual single pieces which connect with the piece B and likewise with the single-ply front-piece E of the ordinary garment, the front-pieces E being, as usual,'two in number. The said piece C, or front side-section, is provided with the usual continuation c, adapted to form the other section of the shoulder-strap of the armhole D and complete the formation of the said armhole when the two extensions c and b are connected.

When the pieces B and C are being cut, they are duplicated to roduce the outer or overlying strip 10 for t e body .strip or section B, including an armhole extension l0:L and an overlying strip l1 for the body-strip C, provided with an armhole extension lla.

Vhen the parts are to be assembled, the forward edges of the back-section A of the body are connected with the rear edges of both the body strips or sections B and the overlying strips or sections l0 therefor, and such connection is produced, preferably, by means of an interlocking seam l2, (shown best in Fig. 3,) the seam extending from the bottom of the body to the neck thereof. Then the abutting inner edges of the rear side-sections B and accompanying overlying sections or pieces l0 and the front body-sections C and overlying corresponding sections or strips 1l are brought together and are united through the medium of a vertical seam 13, extending from end to end of the said sections or pieces named at their inner longitudinal edges. The forward longitudinal edges of the front side-body sections C and overlying corresponding sections 11 are then IOO IIO

secured to the rear longitudinal edges of the front body-sections E by seams 14, and the armhole or shoulder-strap extensions of all of the sections or pieces B, C, 10, and 11 are connected at the upper central shoulder portion of the garment by a transverse interlocking seam 15. All of the said seams 12, 13, 14, and 15 are double seams and are preferably made on what is known as a doubleneedle sewing-machine, wherein a double line of stitching is simultaneously produced in the formation of a seam; but the character of the seam may be changed, and the connections can be made on an ordinary sewingmachine, if desired. Finally, the binding 16 for the armhole is placed around the inner edges of the extensions b, c, 10a, and 11a of the side sections of the garment and is stitched to place, connecting said sections thoroughly. This binding is also stitched along the inner edges of the sections or pieces B, C, 10, and 11 at their upper edges, as is clearly shown in Fig. 1. The Jformation of the garment is then completed by the application of the usual neck-binding 17, which serves to hold the duplicated sections of the garment together at such point.

Thus it will be observed that a garment is obtained which has complete double shoulder straps and complete double surfaces around the armholes, and the double surfaces at the armholes are by preference carried to the bottom portion of the body of the garment, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. It is furthermore obvious from the above description that no more time is required in constructing a garment on the improved lines mentioned than would be consu-med in con structing a garment singly throughout and that the garment is materially strengthened where the most strain is encountered in wear.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent An underwaist, comprising a back, a front formed of two sections, and side-pieces, each formed of duplicate members having duplicate extensions to form shoulder-straps and Varmholes, each member of the side-pieces be- 

